My father owned a Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5 16V (Evo I). That was a fantastic car, great to drive but luxury as well.

These pics were taken right before he sold it (so, it was already about 15 years old).

Except for the rather unfortunate color, that's a lovely car.

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The 1 series M is the most badass, coolest, sickest BMW to debut since the 1988 M3. The E30 M3 finally has a successor. Please welcome the stupidly fast, wickedly tempered, awkwardly named, possibly perfect little son of a benchmark - Automobile Magazine, August 2011

Thanks for an awesome video, I watched it on the TV last night. Before I was into german cars at all, (although I was a BMW fan from the outside), I loooooved the look of the 190.

To this day, I still think it'd be a killer car to own, I'd positively love to pick one up. It goes without saying that I'd love to have an E30 M3 as well, but I've driven a bunch, and they're all over the BMW community, so it's less rare and desirable in that way. It's not to say I wouldn't prefer the E30 M3 longer term, but I'd be more interested in initially picking up a 190.